Anne of the Island

De: L.M. Montgomery

Narrado por: Barbara Caruso

Anne Shirley, the mischievous, carrot-topped waif of Anne of Green Gables, has grown into a lovely young woman who leaves the security of Prince Edward Island to enroll at Redmond College. There, she discovers a professor who believes education is wasted on women, ponders the security offered in marriage proposals, and a host of other questions of young adulthood.

Hear more stories in the Anne of Green Gables series.Public Domain (P)1996 Recorded Books

This one!

This is the one to listen to if you want to listen to this book! Also what a lovely story. Can’t be beat.

Wonderful and Sweet

My second favorite series ever and there can be no better narrator than Barbara Caruso!!! Delightfully enthralling and entertaining and endearing.

Anne just keeps getting better!

Just when I thought I would never find a narrator as lovely as Rachel McAdams for "That Anne girl", I found Barbara Caruso.
This is easily my favorite Anne book thus far and the stuff dreams are made of.
If you've enjoyed Anne of Green Gables and of Avonlea, do yourself a favor and listen to this recording of Anne of The Island

TRIGGER WARNING: TALK OF ANIMAL ABUSE

I'm sure if you're this far into the story you'll like the book but omfg there were a couple of chapters where they talked about murdering animals and drowning kittens. I know this was a different time when it was written but I wish I had been prepared. honestly I think if those chapters or lines were cut out it literally wouldn't have effected the story. wtf was the point in putting a chapter in where they try to euthanize a cat or just throw around the idea that you should drown kittens????

just be careful cat lovers or try to ignore those chapters to get through the story

nostalgic and charming

loved it, a real glimpse into Anne's life in a small town in Canada

Grown Up, Off to College and Romance

Good storytelling is good storytelling whether complex or simple; Heidi or War and Peace. Montgomery's style is crisp, simple and enjoyable. Her stories were not in the style of War and Peace but on the hand, I don't think Leo Tolstoy could have written anything like Anne of Green Gables. In any case, Lucy Maud Montgomery is near the top of my favorite writers especially when I need something to enjoy without effort. I think I have read all of her dozens of books and many of her scores of short stories.

Anne is all grown up and off to the big college of Redmond. Montgomery seems to put into her stories the tales which have an oral tradition of the Maritime Provinces. I have no doubt that this is the source of many of Anne Shirley's adventures. There is a ring of truth to them. They actually happened to someone at some time. My favorites include the two old woman of Patty's Place; oh, yes and the cats! I know they were real. No one could make them up. To Anne's eternal vexation, the all grown up young lady received some of the best "worst" proposals of marriage ever. They stand alongside Mr. Collins' proposal to Elizabeth Bennet and even Mr. Darcy's first proposal to the same lady as awesomely horrible. I think Montgomery reports actual proposals. Oh, yes, she refused them all, including the rather nice expected (by the reader)one from Gilbert.

The death of Ruby Gillis, the beautiful social butterfly is one of Montgomery's best scenes. In addition, that moment when Anne thought Gilbert was dying and she has a flash of insight into her own heart is quite moving. One last thing, "playing gooseberry" or "going gooseberry" means to chaperon. I got that straight from the P.E.I. public relations department and the LM Montgomery Institute.

Barbara Caruso is amazing!

Barbara Caruso does an absolutely fabulous job narrating this book. Each person's personality is so distinct, but not overly done. "I was completely enraptured," as Anne would say.

Amazing

Simply amazing performance of a book in one of my Favorite classic series! I love anne!

Best audio. Reader ever

This was amazing to listen to! Just the way I think LM Montgomery would read it.

Anne goes to college!

I love all the Anne books. I really enjoyed all Anne’s adventures in college. When I was younger, reading about the friends she makes and her academic accomplishments and romantic pratfalls helped me feel more prepared for college, even tho her school days were in a different century than mine. L.M. Montgomery has a great gift for character development; there are lots of wise words, wry humor and beautiful descriptions. It was a joy to listen to, tho the narrator sounds more middle aged than Anne really should, and occasionally adds an inaccurate Southern sort of drawl when certain characters like Davy speak. She does a good job conveying the feelings of the characters and the beauty of the language, so it’s a decent narration.